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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Why is the "bees knees" a really good thing?
Same question for the dog's bollocks. Why, just why?  "
bees knees = business...it's the business.
Not sure about dog's bollocks but seeing as a dog can lick its own bollocks it might be something to do with it. |
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over a year ago
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Used to think 'you can't have your cake and eat it' made no sense too, but turns out it means 'You can't have eaten your cake and still have it'.
I like cake. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Oooo I honestly didn't know about the bees knees one. How come you lot know that and I don't?
Yeah the cake and eat it one keeps me awake at night too. I think it's badly worded.
Any more? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It's not widely known but the term Bees Knees become embedded in popular language purely by accident......
It was originally intended as a coded signal to be used by members of a secret society......
I'm not at liberty to divulge anymore than I already have..
So don't ask,,,,,,
But be very afraid because we are watching.....  |
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"It's not widely known but the term Bees Knees become embedded in popular language purely by accident......
It was originally intended as a coded signal to be used by members of a secret society......
I'm not at liberty to divulge anymore than I already have..
So don't ask,,,,,,
But be very afraid because we are watching..... "
Are you a duck?
Them fucking ducks are always watching me... gives me the shivers! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It's not widely known but the term Bees Knees become embedded in popular language purely by accident......
It was originally intended as a coded signal to be used by members of a secret society......
I'm not at liberty to divulge anymore than I already have..
So don't ask,,,,,,
But be very afraid because we are watching.....
Are you a duck?
Them fucking ducks are always watching me... gives me the shivers! "
damn-it hoisted by my own petard ........  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"You can't teach your grandmother to suck eggs?!  "
My mate taught English as a foreign language to Spanish kids. She used this phrase as an example of how English saying can be a bit unusual
Apparently the word for eggs is basically the same word as for balls.
So she taught a load of school kids to say "Teach your grandmother to suck balls".
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Well I was just about to pose the one about "talking the hind legs off a donkey" which I've never understood...until now. Thanks Google...
"Talking the hind legs off a donkey" is a literal translation of the Gaelic, which actually means "making a donkey sit down on its rear end". Thus, when a person can talk the hind legs off a donkey, they can talk so much, they can do extraordinary things. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"You can't teach your grandmother to suck eggs?!
My mate taught English as a foreign language to Spanish kids. She used this phrase as an example of how English saying can be a bit unusual
Apparently the word for eggs is basically the same word as for balls.
So she taught a load of school kids to say "Teach your grandmother to suck balls".
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Haha....worrying!  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"You can't teach your grandmother to suck eggs?!
My mate taught English as a foreign language to Spanish kids. She used this phrase as an example of how English saying can be a bit unusual
Apparently the word for eggs is basically the same word as for balls.
So she taught a load of school kids to say "Teach your grandmother to suck balls".
Haha....worrying! "
She had no idea, bless her! She told them all and they started laughing and she couldn't figure out why.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"You can't teach your grandmother to suck eggs?! "
means:
because she is vastly more experienced than you so she will know more than you about the subject so you can't teach her how to do something as she already knows how to do it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If you fall and break your leg don't come running to me
If you don't stop I'll give you something to cry about
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th first is a joke.
the second means you are crying over nothing but if you continue you will get a slap which will be something to cry about so stop it now. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"'There's a fine line between genius and insanity'
There's actually a MASSIVE line, in fact it's not so much a line as a vast gulf of difference."
It's usually a prescription |
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"It's not widely known but the term Bees Knees become embedded in popular language purely by accident......
It was originally intended as a coded signal to be used by members of a secret society......
I'm not at liberty to divulge anymore than I already have..
So don't ask,,,,,,
But be very afraid because we are watching.....
Are you a duck?
Them fucking ducks are always watching me... gives me the shivers!
damn-it hoisted by my own petard ........ "
(With apologies to Bruce Willis)
I see duck people everywhere! |
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By *ty31Man
over a year ago
NW London |
As much fun as a barrel of monkeys. I can’t imagine being stuck in a barrel full of monkeys would be very pleasant. And it wouldn’t be very nice for those poor monkeys being cramped in there. |
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"Why is the "bees knees" a really good thing?
Same question for the dog's bollocks. Why, just why? "
I've whiled away many an hour on a website that you can find by Googling "The phrase finder".
I find words, phrases and their origins fascinating.
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"'Pull your finger out' 
How is that going to help, if it's stuck then it's not very helpful, if it's a literal yank then again not helpful! Where is the finger and how did it get there "
The finger is in your arse :
Refers to someone standing round doing nothing, and scratching an itchy arsehole, instead of getting on with the job . |
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My great Nan used to say "If you can see more than God made you can chuck your hat at it."
I took that to mean our bodies are all very similar and no need to be shy about your own.
My Mum thought it was about playing a sort of hoopla game with a man with an erection |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Why is the "bees knees" a really good thing?
Same question for the dog's bollocks. Why, just why? "
bees knees.. They carry nectar in pouches on their knees
Dogs bollocks.. Dunno |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My great Nan used to say "If you can see more than God made you can chuck your hat at it."
I took that to mean our bodies are all very similar and no need to be shy about your own.
My Mum thought it was about playing a sort of hoopla game with a man with an erection "
How many hats were there around the house? |
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"My great Nan used to say "If you can see more than God made you can chuck your hat at it."
I took that to mean our bodies are all very similar and no need to be shy about your own.
My Mum thought it was about playing a sort of hoopla game with a man with an erection
How many hats were there around the house? "
Quite a few as it happened but the game was just imaginary |
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By (user no longer on site)
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My most hated is "at the end of the day...."
Mainly because if you here it its;
1) most likely on Jeremy Kyle
2) followed by something that makes you want to yell at them that they are an idiot
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3) its only applicable when at the end of the day you're another day older. Amd that"s all you can say about the life of the poor. ( ) |
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By *eccymanMan
over a year ago
Gateshead |
"Ants in your pants?
Really? What's that about then?
That's pretty obvious;
Edgy,/nervy/ fidgety/ excited/ over active/can't sit/ stand still....
As if you had , literally, ants in your pants..."
Nah, I'd take my pants off and ask my mum to see why I'm so itchy. Not now of course cos I'm 46 and she's 72, and that would be wrong, but if you're six years old you can ask such a thing of mumsy. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Where I come from there is a saying; "He/she went the colour of boiled shite"
It's on my bucket list. To boil a shite to see what colour it becomes. Understandably, it's last on the list [vom] |
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"Where I come from there is a saying; "He/she went the colour of boiled shite"
It's on my bucket list. To boil a shite to see what colour it becomes. Understandably, it's last on the list [vom] "
Hmmm, bucket list...where did "kick the bucket" come from? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It's not widely known but the term Bees Knees become embedded in popular language purely by accident......
It was originally intended as a coded signal to be used by members of a secret society......
I'm not at liberty to divulge anymore than I already have..
So don't ask,,,,,,
But be very afraid because we are watching..... "
......illuminate scum.... |
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"My mum's favourite saying is handsome is as handsome does.... anyone know? "
Handsome didn't always mean just good looking; it used to be used more to mean generous/ kindly/chivalrous.
So the phrase means that you are judged by your actions... |
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"My mum's favourite saying is handsome is as handsome does.... anyone know?
Handsome didn't always mean just good looking; it used to be used more to mean generous/ kindly/chivalrous.
So the phrase means that you are judged by your actions..."
Thank you squirrel x |
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By *izzy.Woman
over a year ago
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"Where I come from there is a saying; "He/she went the colour of boiled shite"
It's on my bucket list. To boil a shite to see what colour it becomes. Understandably, it's last on the list [vom]
Hmmm, bucket list...where did "kick the bucket" come from?"
Kick the bucket. Animals used to be slaughtered and hung from a bar ( buchet in french). when they spasmed they would kick the bucket. So it became associated with dying. |
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From the days of tin baths in front of the fire; ( and the watercress then thrown out into the street or the yard;
Describing someone who is so careless and stupid that they took the time to wash the baby, then just slung the contents out, but forgot to take the baby out....
Or that they lost sight of the task in hand and threw the valuable thing ( baby) out with the useless thing ( dirty water) |
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By *izzy.Woman
over a year ago
Stoke area |
" throwing the baby out with the bathwater...?"
Baby used to be bathed on tin baths. If you were not concentrating, you could tip baby away when you threw out the water. It means be observant and don't do something daft by ignoring the obvious. |
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By *eccymanMan
over a year ago
Gateshead |
It's not actually.
In olden tomes the man of the house had the first bath (with clean water) and then it went hierarchal with first son next, second son after etc until the females were bathed and then the baby but by that time the water was so dirty that the baby could literally be thrown out with the bathwater.
Analysing the saying it is clear that the mother would have had something to say about it and her baby would never have been left in the bath but the analogy is accurate. It means abject poverty. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs!"
An old expresion from Northern parts- I've heard it in Manchester a very long time ago. Any ideas where it might have come from? |
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""Cheap at half the price" - Of course it is, "Cheap at twice the price" would make sense to indicate how inexpensive something is."
cheap at half the price is sarcastic it means something is expensive it would be cheap only if it was half price. |
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""Cheap at half the price" - Of course it is, "Cheap at twice the price" would make sense to indicate how inexpensive something is.
cheap at half the price is sarcastic it means something is expensive it would be cheap only if it was half price. "
That would make sense, but I hear people say it when something isn't expensive. |
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"'Pull your finger out'
How is that going to help, if it's stuck then it's not very helpful, if it's a literal yank then again not helpful! Where is the finger and how did it get there "
Was it in a dyke or is that another BBC political correctitude? |
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pulling your Leg .
I know the Correct answer to this
i just wanna see if there are any other Smug Fuckers out there ..
P.S its not to check with wether a person is dead or not cos if youd of pulled Vhristopher Reed's leg ( superman) after he fell off his horse , he wouldnt of reacted or felt it .
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"pulling your Leg .
I know the Correct answer to this
i just wanna see if there are any other Smug Fuckers out there ..
P.S its not to check with wether a person is dead or not cos if youd of pulled Vhristopher Reed's leg ( superman) after he fell off his horse , he wouldnt of reacted or felt it .
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"From the days of tin baths in front of the fire; ( and the watercress then thrown out into the street or the yard;
Describing someone who is so careless and stupid that they took the time to wash the baby, then just slung the contents out, but forgot to take the baby out....
Or that they lost sight of the task in hand and threw the valuable thing ( baby) out with the useless thing ( dirty water)"
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""Cheap at half the price" - Of course it is, "Cheap at twice the price" would make sense to indicate how inexpensive something is."
Would indicate that it would be cheap, at half the price (as it indeed is on offer at that lower price elsewhere.) |
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"Where I come from there is a saying; "He/she went the colour of boiled shite"
It's on my bucket list. To boil a shite to see what colour it becomes. Understandably, it's last on the list [vom] "
If you wish you could also investigate this one for me whilst undertaking your experiment. the saying is as follows,
"You can't polish a turd."
I believe that it refers to being unable to behave contrary to one's nature.
If anyone wishes to conduct the experiment, I would be interested in the write up (only) of your findings. |
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"Where I come from there is a saying; "He/she went the colour of boiled shite"
It's on my bucket list. To boil a shite to see what colour it becomes. Understandably, it's last on the list [vom]
If you wish you could also investigate this one for me whilst undertaking your experiment. the saying is as follows,
"You can't polish a turd."
I believe that it refers to being unable to behave contrary to one's nature.
If anyone wishes to conduct the experiment, I would be interested in the write up (only) of your findings. "
no it means you can't make something that has no redeeming features better. however was disproved on myth busters where they did polish one. |
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""Cheap at half the price" - Of course it is, "Cheap at twice the price" would make sense to indicate how inexpensive something is.
cheap at half the price is sarcastic it means something is expensive it would be cheap only if it was half price.
That would make sense, but I hear people say it when something isn't expensive."
then they miss use it. a bit like people who say they could care less rather than they couldn't care less. |
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"Where I come from there is a saying; "He/she went the colour of boiled shite"
It's on my bucket list. To boil a shite to see what colour it becomes. Understandably, it's last on the list [vom]
If you wish you could also investigate this one for me whilst undertaking your experiment. the saying is as follows,
"You can't polish a turd."
I believe that it refers to being unable to behave contrary to one's nature.
If anyone wishes to conduct the experiment, I would be interested in the write up (only) of your findings.
no it means you can't make something that has no redeeming features better. however was disproved on myth busters where they did polish one."
As an alternative you can spray it gold... |
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"My most hated is "at the end of the day...."
Mainly because if you here it its;
1) most likely on Jeremy Kyle
2) followed by something that makes you want to yell at them that they are an idiot
And
3) its only applicable when at the end of the day you're another day older. Amd that"s all you can say about the life of the poor. ( )"
I'm always saying it.. "At the end of the day"...and I kick myself for it.. Such a stupid saying!! |
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Too cold to snow, (when it has no problem snowing at minus 40 in central Canada)
No, it's not snowing because there are no precipitation bearing clouds, probably because we have an anticyclone typified by bright clear weather, which in winter means lower temperatures due to lack of cloud cover. |
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